The two-day Kathak Darpan organised Smriti Festival, paying homage to late Pandit Birju Maharaj, held at the Madras Music Academy, while mentioning, in the printed information in dailies, 3 Padma Shri awardees and 5 Sangeet Natak Akademi awardees as participants, listed no names. Mounted with laudable effort, not to speak of a large heart, by Kathak Darpan Institute of Chennai run by Kathak dancer Neha Banerjee, a student of Pandit Birju Maharaj, it is surprising that the organiser seemed totally unaware about Chennai audiences - for whom late night soirees of the kind held in the North till the wee hours of the morning, are out of bounds - and no cultural programme in Sabhas lasts beyond 8.30pm. To plan evenings with the best of fare programmed after 9pm was, to say the least, being over optimistic.Read more in the site
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